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...preserve the environment. Steps including turning off sprinklers during rainstorms, automatically placing computers on standby mode when unused, and increasing vegetarian dining choices can further reduce our footprint and help us achieve President Faust’s goal of reducing Harvard’s greenhouse-gas footprint 30 percent by 2016. That being said, creative ideas such as changing the treatment of our grass are encouraging signs that we will reach, if not surpass, this target...
...light of the fact that the university has experienced a 30 percent drop in its endowment and a decline in tuition and donation revenue, it is admirable that it has managed to keep financing for the housing project in order. We have been told repeatedly over the past few weeks that recovery from the financial fallout will not be rapid or easy. It is heartening that, despite this reality, the university remains committed to this massive endeavor...
Economics Professor N. Gregory Mankiw, whose introductory course Social Analysis 10 attracts hundreds of students each year, saw his enrollment decrease by nearly 10 percent from last year...
Facing a projected budgetary deficit of $220 million last year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had planned this spring to cut 8 to 10 percent of the College’s section leaders for the fall semester, which was projected to save around $2 million, according Logan S. McCarty, assistant dean of Harvard College. But because of changes in enrollment, it remains unclear four weeks into the semester how much money will actually be saved or how section sizes will change...
Firstly, a high voter turnout is the only way of ensuring that our democratically elected representatives truly represent the majority. There’s no doubt that President Obama’s victory was resounding. Fifty two percent of all voters supported him. However, it transpires that, even in that most exceptional presidential election of 2008, only 64 percent of eligible voters actually turned out to vote. The outcome was that only around one in three Americans actually voted for President Obama. This is not a new phenomenon; low voter turnout may be regarded as the norm rather than...